Dead Yacht Doctrine

[Verse 1]
I can’t hear the soft chords anymore,
Saxophones swallowed where the waves roar.
Sunlit grooves now broken at sea,
All capsized the moment you betrayed me.

[Pre-Chorus]
I trace the shadow of your careless hands,
The mariner’s hum shattered by the strands.
Was it ambition, cruelty, or neglect?
The decks we loved now lie wrecked.

[Chorus]
I can’t sail the smooth, I can’t catch the breeze,
Every Yacht Rock song drags me to my knees.
You tore the mast, left me alone,
The ocean’s rhythm is a tombstone.

[Verse 2]
Palm trees shiver under a drowned sky,
Melodies crack where the seabirds cry.
Every note that once felt free
Now drifts in the wreckage of your treachery.

[Pre-Chorus]
I hear your laughter in the breaking foam,
The songs we cherished will never bring me home.
Was it hubris, or some subtle crime?
The smooth seas lie lost, swept away by time.

[Chorus]
I can’t sail the smooth, I can’t catch the breeze,
Every Yacht Rock song drags me to my knees.
You tore the mast, left me alone,
The ocean’s rhythm is a tombstone.

[Bridge]
I raise a glass to the ghosts of sound,
To the yachts you sank, to what’s never found.
I’ll drift among the shards of melody,
A splintered deck of our mutiny.

[Guitar Solo – smooth, aching, like the last note of a dying sea]

[Chorus]
I can’t sail the smooth, I can’t catch the breeze,
Every Yacht Rock song drags me to my knees.
You tore the mast, left me alone,
The ocean’s rhythm is a tombstone.
I’ll never sail the smooth, I won’t catch the breeze,
Everything Yacht Rock has capsized me.
Fair winds to the ghosts you’ve made,
I’ll haunt this wrecked parade.

[Outro]
So play your tunes in your plastic sun,
I’ll float in silence where the wreckage runs.
The smooth survives in memory’s core,
But your betrayal shattered the shore,
And I’ll drift among the drowned forevermore.

Dark rock/goth-pop ballad, smooth piano, goth n’ roll undertone, haunting, radio energy chorus, male baritone